Dave Grohl Quotes
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Most of our songs were written on acoustic guitar before they made it to the practice stage.
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I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager.
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It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.
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I love being a drummer but I love being a musician in general and I love the Foo fighters.
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I'm not like a voracious hoarder who has 50,000 albums of vinyl stacked in a storage space in the San Fernando Valley. But I do have albums from the last 40 years of my life.
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It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
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If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.
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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
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I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.
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People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
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You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I've never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.
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From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.
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I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
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We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters.
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Different boards do different things to the sound that's coming through them. An old Neve desk does embellish it in a way that makes it sound sort of bigger or warmer. It doesn't change the performance but it does enhance the way that it sounds.
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The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.
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Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
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Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.
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I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.
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'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'
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The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
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When I listen to the radio, I just hear so much music that doesn't even sound like people. The vocals are all tuned, and the drums are all fake.
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At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.
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When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.